An iron-helium compound, shown here in artificial color using a technique called secondary ion mass spectrometry, forms under high temperature and pressure. ... To make the new iron compound, ...

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...

Without oxygen connected, blood is a darker red color. Carbon monoxide, a potentially deadly gas, can also bind to heme , with a bond around 200 times stronger than that of oxygen.

A biotech start-up is producing iron compounds, through precision fermentation, that are more bioavailable than much naturally occurring iron in plants. Iron deficiency is a key health problem that ...